My website domain requires another DNS server and I cannot change it. I was able to work around this by asking them to point to the IP address of the relevant sites for the other subdomains I have. Once I have the IP address I think I will be all set.

--also i was wondering if there is a setting I can change that will open links in a new tab. Right now when you click on links in my forum it opens the link in the current tab which a user requested I change since it is more difficult to navigate a lot of links.

This seems like a common issue. I am trying the same thing. Here is my DNS record on GoDaddy

I noticed in some older posts that the IP was different, so how often does this change? Also do we need to park the domain name as well? The UI currently doesn't allow you to remove the www, and I want to redirect forum.realstarter.co to realstarter.createaforum.com.